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Are you going to continue to attach stickers to gages? This is no longer required,
Though I have fought with auditors in the past over this... this year we finally relented and actually labeled our gages, etc... that are NOT used for inspection/test results as "not for calibration. We have always "identified" our inspection and testing gauges with a sticker... and specified that "only those with the appropriate calibration stickers and that are on the calibration list... may be used to make quality decisions... blah, blah, blah..."Originally posted by Tom Goetzinger:
What do their procedures say? I don't believe that the standard ever required calibration stickers on all calibrated gages. It just requires a method of identifying which gages are calibrated, so that only those are used when product quality is affected.
This has been my experience.We were CONSTANTLY busted for not labeling everything else "not for calibration."
As I stated above, I have run into the 'sticker everything' mentality. For some years I have used the procedure vehicle to avoid labeling everything. It does work, but there are some idiot auditors who don't like to buy it. You gotta ram it down their throats.Originally posted by Tom Goetzinger:
Have you tried including in your procedures the statement that unless identified as calibrated, all gages are assumed to be for reference use only?
Consider yourself lucky.Originally posted by Tom Goetzinger:
Because this is true in our environment, and our auditor is a reasonable, experienced individual, I did not have to ram it down his throat.